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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the NPR article made an excellent overarching point— parents have lost faith in public schools.  When all of a sudden schools are going 4 days a week, cancelling days because teachers don’t want to work with little notice, can go full virtual for a year or more when closures of that length are no scientifically necessary, etc. parents stop trusting schools.

If I was a teacher or union leader, this would concern me.  Parents who don’t trust public schools make different choices (private, virtual, homeschool, parochial) or vote for different choices, like vouchers and charters. See also, the VA election. Focus groups are saying that Biden-Youngkin voters number one issue was schools. And not really CRT or books.  That VA kept schools closed long past what was reasonable or necessary, and was close to dead last to reopen. And that only happened because parents fought back.

[b]When parents with resources who care about education flee, you get schools that only have children with challenges like SNs and FARMs in public. [/b]So teachers need to deal with even more challenges, or move to a charter/private for less pay, fewer benefits, and where they have less power. Or leave teaching and work year round with only two weeks off (1-3 year Fed is 13 vacation days).   Private school teachers mostly taught in person last year and earned a lot less.

Teachers seem oblivious to the terms of employment in the real world. They were the only group that got to dictate that  they stayed home. Who got to decide they weren’t essential, until it was vaxx time.  And they won. Now, they are dealing with the fallout of THEIR CHOICES (and it’s not like it should be a shocker that kids struggled educationally or social-emotionally) and they want to insult parents who object to freebie days of of education.

When school has been in session about 12 weeks after a 2 month summer break, and teachers have gotten a 4 days weekend for Labor Day, Columbus Day, and 5 days for Thanksgiving off.  Plus another other 4 day weekend at the end of the quarter, where most teachers I know were allowed to telework.  Coming up: 2 more weeks off next month. Plus some early release days.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound when you whine about time off to parents who might be lucky to get two weeks off a year? How much less do you want to work? Never mind, we know the answer.

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We already have that situation. My school is 90%+ FARMS. Wealthy, highly educated will always move to areas with schools filled with people like themselves. That leaves poor people with few choices to fill up public schools.[/quote]

And now wealthy white and Asian parents are leaving public schools altogether, tanking even good schools. Teachers want parents to know they can quit.  We get it. [b]And after 2 years of constant threats of teachers shutting down schools[/b], parents are over it and voting with their feet (and ballots for Youngkin).  10k kids lost in FCPS last year.  How many more will leave this year, and never enter the school system to begin with?  You would think it would dawn on teachers and unions that this is bad for them.  But nope. [/quote]

We are in FCPS and it hasn’t seemed that we’ve had two years of constant threats. We are involved in the community. Our teachers seem to have been pretty happy about being back in person since last spring. I haven’t heard anything about closing schools since maybe last winter.[/quote]

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